diachylon
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek διάχῡλος (diákhūlos, “juicy”).
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editdiachylon (countable and uncountable, plural diachylons or diachyla)
- (medicine) A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants, later made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerine mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
- 1832, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist), The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.[1]:
- Externally, I find the practitioners on whom I have chiefly relied used the plasters of Paracelsus, of melilot, diachylon, and probably diaphoenicon, all well known to the old pharmacopoeias, and some of them to the modern ones,—to say nothing of "my yellow salve," of Governor John, the second, for the composition of which we must apply to his respected descendant.
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editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin diachylon (“juicy”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdiachylon m (countable and uncountable, plural diachylons)
Further reading
edit- “diachylon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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